FOOTNOTES
[1] This is only the number directly affiliated; there are in all 2,350 divisional and Local Labour Parties and Trades Councils.
[2] Reprinted, with additions, as The Revolutionary Movement in Great Britain. Grant Richards, Ltd., 1921.
[3] A good exposition of this school of Socialism is to be found in Professor J. A. Estey’s Revolutionary Syndicalism.
[4] Rt. Hon. J. R. Clynes; Messrs. J. A. Hobson, J. J. Mallon and Misses Susan Lawrence and Mona Wilson.
[5] The shop stewards, normally, are persons elected by the men of each craft in each department of an engineering shop to act individually, or through a “convener” of all the shop stewards of the particular craft as the connecting link between the men of that craft in the works and the district delegate or district committee of the craft Trade Union.
[6] Messrs. Adamson and Gosling.
[7] Small Holdings and Allotments Acts, 1908 to 1919; The Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919; Small Landholders (Scotland) Acts, 1886 to 1919; Land Settlement (Scotland) Acts, 1919 and 1921; etc.
[8] See Land Nationalization, by Harold Cox, 2nd Ed., 1906. Methuen & Co.
[9] A similar Bill was introduced in the Session of 1922.
[10] Joint Committee of Trades Union Congress, Labour Party, Co-operative Unionists—Final Report, 1921—(Co-operative Society, Ltd.).
See also:—
| 1st | Report Civil Service Association. | Times, | April 17, | 1922. |
| 2nd | ” ” ” ” | ” | July 18, | ” |
[11] Sir Wm. Mackenzie, K.B.E., K.C., is President.
[12] “The Geddes Committee.”
[13] In fact many railway men work more than 8 hours per day, receiving, for the excess hours, overtime pay.
[14] The National Union of Railwaymen and the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen.
[15] The principle had been agreed in January 1920.
[16] Now the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.
[17] The propriety of this disqualification has been referred by the Minister of Labour to a Committee for consideration and report. (See Labour Gazette, July 1922, p. 287.)
[18] The total value of the effective allocations is £2,630,000, inasmuch as approximately £160,618 will not ultimately be payable.
| 1921. | April 28. | 6½ | per cent. |
| June 23. | 6 | ” | |
| July 21. | 5½ | ” | |
| Nov. 3. | 5 | ” | |
| 1922. | Feb. 16. | 4½ | ” |
| April 13. | 4 | ” | |
| June 15. | 3½ | ” | |
| July 13. | 3 | ” |
[20] Committee of Inquiry into the Working and Effect of the Trade Boards Acts—Parliamentary Paper, 1922, Cd. 1645.
[21] Address to Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, Oct. 18, 1920.
[22] See other illustrations reported by me to the Government, p. 302, Industrial Problems and Disputes, by Lord Askwith.